Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:27 AM 9/9/97 -0500, you wrote: >Fantoni, Ernesto wrote: > >> On Mon, 08 Sep 1997 12:29 Stephen Gandy wrote: >> >IN this particular lens (due to >> >design changes to save the almighty $$) it is very difficult to take >> >> >apart the rear element once it has been attacked in order to clean it >> >> >properly. The only thing you can really do is have a clear one taken >> >> >apart and rel-ubed with modern synthetic grease BEFORE the problem >> >presents itself. I did it on mine, and have had no trouble. My >> source >> >of information is Don Chatterton. >> >> Len, >> >> I confirm what Stephen says. I bought few months ago a slim 4 elements >> >> Tele Elmarit (I hope we are talking about this Tele Elmarit) and Don >> Chatterton told me to be very careful with this lens: he didn't >> mention >> any grease, he simply said it's almost impossible to clean this lens >> as >> the rear element is fixed in the barrel. I'm satisfied with the image >> quality, anyway. >> Is there anybody that can give some infos about the serial numbers of >> the bad batch(s)? >> Should be very helpful, also to avoid wrong purchases. >> >> Ernesto > >Ernesto - For whatever value it may have, the serial number of my lemon >Tele-Elmarit-M with the bad adhesive is 2659000. If yours has a number >near mine, perhaps it's another one of the bad batch(es). One of the >painful aspects of this purchase was that it came from one of the >multi-page advertisers in Shutterbug (no, NOT B&H). > > I have a Tele-Elmarit with serial number of 2872594, and it is perfectly clean. Alan